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New Year’s goals are simple yet often difficult to achieve. Weight-loss plans fall by the wayside. A new gym membership gets a lot of use in January but not so much in June. Plans to work on your golf game get short-circuited by the stress of your daily routine. Where most people fall short in their goals is the failure to create a plan that will allow them to find success. What we want to do is create a road map for improvement that can be continuous and ongoing throughout the year. The first step is to make an honest evaluation of your game. Pick the three weaknesses that jump off the page and dedicate the year to fixing the problems — one at a time. Break the year into thirds and devote your attention to that particular shortcoming. Employ a system that will allow you to work on each area in an efficient and effective way. Do you feel like you don’t make enough short putts? Is your contact solid? Is your speed good? How is your heart rate? How is your alignment? How smooth is your swing? Maybe you’re trying to do something more complex like changing your ball flight from a slice to a draw. This change might require a little more in-depth knowledge and the aid of an instructor. But every avid golfer should have at least a basic understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship between the swing path, clubface position and direction the ball flies. Is your problem area something more subjective, like feel? Feel is a very right-brained part of the game. It’s an area of the game that most people don’t work on. Ask yourself what’s going on when you fall out of rhythm. Did something internal cause you to speed up your motion? Did you get angry? Was there something external that took you out of your rhythm? When broken down to the basics, your mind doesn’t know a good habit from a bad habit. It only knows what you train it to do. Groove some good habits on the range and practice greens and they’ll accompany you to the course. Putting a good swing on the ball will become an automatic process. So it’s up to you. Follow a plan and evaluate your weaknesses. Systematically break them down to the core issue and build yourself back up one piece at a time. You’ ll be a better player by this time next year. Jamie Mulligan is chief operating officer and a PGA professional at Long Beach’s Virginia Country Club. He has twice been recognized as Teacher of the Year by the Southern California PGA. |
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